I am rereading Pride and Prejudice. Austen is in many ways a really miserable writer. It is a very unpleasant world which see draws and she has no revolutionary optimism. Her characters, though well to do, are thoroughly trapped. Austen, unlike Wodehouse, sees nothing of value in the world of the idle rich. She is also, I think, acutely aware of the suffering it is built on. She has little hope for the coming capitalist class. Her clergy are greedy and stupid. That's before we come to women and their situation.
I want to know how it was received by her contemporaries. It seems the sort of writing that ought to be scandalous.
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